Former President Trump urged Republicans to dig in as a shutdown looms over Washington, arguing Sunday that President Biden will take the blame if the federal government closes. Congress faces a Se…

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    You’re thinking too logically. Biden is “in charge.” That is enough for Fox News to blanket multiple news cycles with. “Biden ineffectual at preventing shutdown,” “Biden embarrassed as shutdown enters second week,” “Biden nowhere to be found as Congress deadlocks on shutdown reopening plan” and so on. They’re just going to say “Biden” and “shutdown” in the same sentence until a viewer believes - without ever having arrived at the conclusion - that Biden owns the shutdown.

    Low-information right-wing viewers have no conception of, or interest in learning, how this all actually works.

    • @Godric
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      179 months ago

      What Fox has to say about the shutdown so far:

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        169 months ago

        Surprisingly critical of their own. Interesting.

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          They finally have their own cancer to fight instead of just being the cancer.

        • @Godric
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          59 months ago

          I might run a Google search to factcheck something, you won’t catch me watching that brainrot so you tell us

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      49 months ago

      Undoubtedly.

      To paraphrase Lily Tomlin, no matter how cynical I get, it’s still not enough.